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Cuthbert's late heroics put unbeaten Chelsea step closer to title
The Guardian
|March 24, 2025
If Chelsea are to complete this league season unbeaten, a feat that is now only five games away, it will have been across 45 relentless second-half minutes at the Etihad Stadium where they proved themselves worthy of accolades attributed to "invincibles", after they produced a stirring fight-back to beat Manchester City.
At the end of last season these two sides could be separated only by goal difference. After Erin Cuthbert's late header won this contest and sent the away fans into raptures, there is a 15-point gap between Chelsea and fourth-placed City, who will feel aggrieved about one controversial first-half incident that might have altered the game's course.
Long before Cuthbert's winner in the 91st minute, City were baffled after Jess Park curled the ball into the net from just outside the penalty area only to realise the referee, Kirsty Dowle, had stopped play for a free-kick, moving to blow her whistle just as Park was connecting with her shot.
This story is from the March 24, 2025 edition of The Guardian.
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